{"id":10783,"date":"2021-01-20T10:29:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T10:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3118525\/hong-kong-authorities-seize-hk46-million-worth-illicit"},"modified":"2021-01-20T10:29:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T10:29:14","slug":"hong-kong-authorities-seize-hk46-million-worth-of-illicit-cigarettes-arrest-five-in-new-territories-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/20\/hong-kong-authorities-seize-hk46-million-worth-of-illicit-cigarettes-arrest-five-in-new-territories-raid\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong authorities seize HK$46 million worth of illicit cigarettes, arrest five in New Territories raid"},"content":{"rendered":"Authorities confiscated some HK$46 million (US$5.9 million) worth of black-market cigarettes and arrested five men at a corrugated metal shed in northern Hong Kong on Tuesday evening \u2013 the second major bust involving contraband tobacco in the area in just four days.Assistant Superintendent Rachel Fong Kwun-ting, of the Customs and Excise Department\u2019s revenue crime investigation bureau, said on Wednesday that she believed the illicit cigarettes were intended to meet demand in the city during the\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3118525\/hong-kong-authorities-seize-hk46-million-worth-illicit\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities confiscated some HK$46 million (US$5.9 million) worth of black-market cigarettes and arrested five men at a corrugated metal shed in northern Hong Kong on Tuesday evening \u2013 the second major bust involving contraband tobacco in the area in j&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":773,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/773"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10784,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10783\/revisions\/10784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}